Four Impeachment Scholars to Open Judiciary Impeachment Hearing

By Billy House

Dec. 2, 2019, 9:29 PM

Committee to explore constitutional basis for proceedings

Trump counsel won’t take part in Wednesday’s session

Four experts on president impeachment will fill the witness table during the House Judiciary Committee’s opening hearing of historic proceedings to determine whether President Donald Trump should be impeached.

Judiciary Chairman Jerrold Nadler is depicting Wednesday’s session as an opportunity to discuss the historical and constitutional basis of impeachment, and whether Trump’s alleged actions warrant pressing forward with possible articles of impeachment.

The expert witnesses announced Monday are: Noah Feldman from Harvard Law School; Pamela Karlan of Stanford Law School, Michael Gerhardt of the University of North Carolina School of Law; and Jonathan Turley of the George Washington University Law...